Info: 60 Vegan Capsules with 500 mg of Powdered Fermented Organic Turkey Tail Mushroom Tops
Turkey tail mushrooms are one of the best researched and most widely used medicinal mushrooms in the world, with well-documented anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory, and immuno-modulating and gut microbiota-balancing benefits. Ordinarily, it achieves the latter by serving as a prebiotic which gets fermented by the bacteria in your own gut (which might cause a bit of digestive upset), but here, by pre-fermenting it first in a Kefir-Kombucha solution like the majority of their products, Living Alchemy enables it to work much quicker and more effectively with very little chance of leading to an upset stomach.
Info: 60 Vegan Capsules with 500 mg of Powdered Fermented Organic Turkey Tail Mushroom Tops
Turkey tail mushrooms are one of the best researched and most widely used medicinal mushrooms in the world, with well-documented anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory, and immuno-modulating and gut microbiota-balancing benefits. Ordinarily, it achieves the latter by serving as a prebiotic which gets fermented by the bacteria in your own gut (which might cause a bit of digestive upset), but here, by pre-fermenting it first in a Kefir-Kombucha solution like the majority of their products, Living Alchemy enables it to work much quicker and more effectively with very little chance of leading to an upset stomach.
Product Notes:
Turkey Tail is one of the most 'Googleable' functional mushrooms around, with plenty of reputable sites (or videos) outlining at least four or more types of benefits, often accompanied with scientific citations like you can see below. It contains dozens of active compounds,* with the best known likely being PSK (polysaccharide-K), which is also known as krestin when it's extracted. Krestin has been approved for use as adjuvant or follow-up therapy for cancer treatment in Japan for many decades, now, for reasons explained in this second video.
Researchers have also found that Turkey Tail can also nurture the friendly bacteria in the gut, both in healthy people and in those who've had to take antibiotics. And thanks to its dozens of types of phenolic compounds with the ability to quench free radicals or to help prevent the breakdown of the important neurotransmitter acetylcholine, it may have neuroprotective effects and help lower the risk of age-related cognitive decline.
Ingredients:
Each veg. capsule contains:
500 mg Symbio® Fermented Mushroom: Organic Turkey Tail Mushroom (Trametes versicolor, fruiting body)
Non-medicinal ingredients: Organic Pullulan Capsule (Organic pullulan starch, water).
Living Alchemy assures a minimum of 40% polysaccharides [total glucans] and 30% beta-glucans content.
Suggested Usage:
Adults: Take one to two capsules per day, either with or without food. Store bottle in a cool, dry place.
Warnings:
Keep out of reach of children. Consult a healthcare practitioner prior to use if you are pregnant or breastfeeding, or if symptoms persist or worsen after use.
Health Canada Natural Product Number: 80111417.
Supporting Science:
* Jin, Mei et al. “Anti-inflammatory activities of the chemical constituents isolated from Trametes versicolor.” Natural Product Research, 2019. They found 27 anti-inflammatory agents in turkey tail: nine triterpenoids, eight sterols, two ribonucleotides, four phenols, three glycosides, and one furan. Similarly, Janjušević et al (2017) report finding 38 types of antioxidants and acetylcholinesterase inhibitors in them (in, “The lignicolous fungus Trametes versicolor (L.) Lloyd (1920): a promising natural source of antiradical and AChE inhibitory agents.” Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry).
Łysakowska, Paulina et al. “Medicinal Mushrooms: Their Bioactive Components, Nutritional Value and Application in Functional Food Production - A Review.” Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2023.
Njue, Alice W et al. “Ergostanes from the mushroom Trametes versicolor and their cancer cell inhibition: In vitro and in silico evaluation.” Steroids, 2024.
Pallav, K. et al. “Effects of polysaccharopeptide from Trametes Versicolor and amoxicillin on the gut microbiome of healthy volunteers: A randomized clinical trial.” Gut Microbes, 2014.
Winder, Mateusz et al. “The use of Hericium erinaceus and Trametes versicolor extracts in supportive treatment in oncology.” Acta pharmaceutica (Zagreb, Croatia), 2021.
Wu, Joseph M et al. “Recent Advances and Challenges in Studies of Control of Cancer Stem Cells and the Gut Microbiome by the Trametes-Derived Polysaccharopeptide PSP (Review).” International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms, 2016.
Yu, Zhuotenget al. “Trametes versicolor Extract Modifies Human Fecal Microbiota Composition In vitro.” Plant Foods for Human Nutrition, 2013.